She Runs

Director Qiu Yang / / China,France

Increasingly uninterested in the goals of her aerobics dance sport team, Yu decides to make a break for it.

MIFF Accelerator Alumnus and former Palme d’Or winner Qiu Yang (A Gentle Night, MIFF 2017; Under the Sun, MIFF 2015) brings us into the world of a dispirited teenage girl forced to endure the pressures that come with strenuous physical training and familial expectations.

Winner of the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film at Cannes Critics’ Week 2019.


Screens as part of the International Shorts 1 program.
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